Finance Contracts in Basildon

Financial
Essex > Basildon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in Basildon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 5 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 26.32% 20.41% 16.00%
As % of the General category 38.46% 47.62% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £414 £598 £211
25th Percentile £426 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £600 £430
Median % change year-on-year -25.21% +39.53% -
75th Percentile £468 £675 £448
90th Percentile £478 - £449
Essex median daily rate £468 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +22.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.65 -
Essex median hourly rate £21.00 £61.33 £21.30
% change year-on-year -65.76% +187.91% -0.93%

All General Skills
Basildon

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 13 21 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 68.42% 42.86% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 12
10th Percentile £315 £100 £289
25th Percentile £317 £219 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £586 £503
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +16.62% -2.16%
75th Percentile £422 £600 £523
90th Percentile £449 £675 £535
Essex median daily rate £400 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £32.00 £35.65 £56.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.20 £56.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.77% -0.83% +179.07%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.25 £65.63
90th Percentile £48.00 £73.75 £67.50
Essex median hourly rate £21.00 £35.65 £44.53
% change year-on-year -41.09% -19.94% +107.12%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in Basildon

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in Basildon.

Daily rate trend for Finance in Basildon

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in Basildon.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in Basildon

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Manager
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
3 1 (20.00%) Conflict Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) SAP